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Good, bad or ugly. US economy-watchers keenly await the consumer sentiment index for June and Chicago PMI for May, after US GDP was revised down earlier this week.

Does anyone want the new BlackBerrys? The smartphone maker will divulge sales numbers for its new touchscreen Z10, an all-or-nothing bet to revive its fortunes.

German inflation. Europe’s largest economy will report inflation statistics for June, and analysts expect a 1.8% rise in the consumer prices index from a year ago. Retail sales rose 0.8% in May, beating expectations and adding to signs of a recovery.

Acts of unsanctioned journalism. China shut down 31 news websites, some of which were supposedly “editing false information for blackmail and extortion.”

A four-star Edward Snowden? James “Hoss” Cartwright, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a target in the criminal investigation over the leaking of the US-Israeli “Stuxnet” cyber-attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Vatican bank scandal. Vatican accountant Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, along with a secret service agent and a financial broker, were arrested for trying to move 20 million euros illegally into Italy—part of Pope Francis’ internal investigation into the secretive Institute for the Works of Religion.

Steve LeVine on why you shouldn’t get too excited about the UK’s shale gas reserves. ”The Geological Survey said that the Bowland shale contains about 1,300 trillion cubic feet (40 trillion cubic meters) of natural gas ‘in place.’ The tricky metric—after you know the resource in place—is the ‘recovery rate,’ the percentage that can actually be extracted, and here is where the hyperbole has appeared.” Read more here.